Privacy policy
This is a translation. The binding version is the German one; in case of doubt, the German text prevails.
Controller
Stefan Hölting
c/o Autorenglück #42102
Albert-Einstein-Straße 47
02977 Hoyerswerda
Germany
E-mail: support-schneekugel@your-app-world.de
The short version
Schneekugel runs entirely on your device. There is no server operated by the provider, no user account, no registration, no advertising, no tracking and no third-party analytics.
The provider never has access to your photos or settings.
Portrait photos
When you choose a photo for a figure, the app processes it directly on your device with Apple's image recognition (Vision) in order to cut out the head. The photo does not leave your device in the process. The cut-out head is stored locally in the app's own folder and stays there until you delete or replace it through the figure selection, or until you uninstall the app.
The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR; you grant access to your photo library in iOS and can withdraw it there at any time.
Motion sensors
The app uses the motion sensors to notice when the device is shaken, so the snow inside the globe swirls up. This data is evaluated only at the moment of use; it is neither stored nor transmitted.
Stored settings
The app stores your choice of scene and season, and which of the four figure places are filled, locally in your device's settings (UserDefaults), so that they are still there the next time you start it. This data does not leave your device.
Shared greetings
When you create an image or a video to share, it is produced locally on your device. It is transmitted somewhere only once you actively send it through the iOS share sheet — to the destination you choose yourself at that point.
App Store and in-app purchases
Purchase, payment and management of the in-app purchases — the one-off unlock as well as the voluntary contributions — are handled exclusively by Apple. The provider receives from Apple only aggregated, non-personal sales and payout reports. Payment data is neither collected nor stored by the provider.
Whether the unlock is active is checked by the app through Apple's StoreKit, and the result is remembered locally. No user account or identifier is transmitted to the provider in the process. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR.
The provider is Apple Distribution International Ltd., Hollyhill Industrial Estate, Hollyhill, Cork, Ireland. Privacy policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
Diagnostic data
The app integrates no crash or analytics services of its own. If your device sends diagnostic data to Apple, that rests on your consent in the iOS system settings ("Analytics & Improvements"). At most, the provider receives anonymised crash reports through App Store Connect.
Contact and support
If you send us a support e-mail, we process your details — sender address, subject, message text and any attachments — solely to handle the enquiry and in case of follow-up questions. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in answering your enquiry. If the enquiry concerns a purchase or its preparation, Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR applies in addition.
We do not run the support mailbox ourselves: it is hosted by Google (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). Your message sits in our mailbox there and is read and answered by us personally only.
No AI service is involved. The contents of your message are neither evaluated automatically nor used to train AI models; there is no automated decision in individual cases within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR.
Google acts as our processor under Art. 28 GDPR; a corresponding data processing agreement is in place.
What you write to us is up to you. To handle a support enquiry we need no portrait photos — please redact faces in screenshots. For sensitive matters you may also write to us from a neutral address without using your real name.
Messages are deleted as soon as they are no longer needed, at the latest once statutory retention periods have expired.
Recipients and third countries
We do not pass on the data you record in the app — we have no access to it. Beyond the cases described above there are no recipients of personal data:
- Apple — for purchase and billing
- Google — operation of the support mailbox
With both, processing may also take place in the USA. The transfers are safeguarded by the European Commission's standard contractual clauses; Apple and Google are additionally certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
Storage period and deletion
Your data stays stored until you delete it. You remove cut-out portraits through the figure selection in the app. All local data is removed when you delete the app from your device.
Your rights
You have the rights of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20) and objection (Art. 21 GDPR). From the app itself we hold no data about you; to that extent we can only confirm that there is nothing to disclose. If you have written to us, these rights concern the correspondence in the support mailbox.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint about the processing with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR) — in particular with the authority of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
Changes
We adapt this policy when changes to the app require it. The current version is available in the app and at https://your-app-world.de/schneekugel/privacy.html
This English text is provided for convenience; the German version is authoritative.
Hosting of this page
This text is additionally served as a web page through GitHub Pages (GitHub, Inc., USA). In doing so GitHub processes technically necessary connection data such as the IP address; we do not receive the server logs ourselves. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Details are set out in the privacy policy of the website: your-app-world.de